News - Topics from June, 2014

In an interview last week with Gadsden County Sheriff Morris Young, sheriff’s department attorney Rick Davison and investigator Ulysses Jenkins, the three men talked about witnessing the execution of death row inmate John Henry on June 18 at the Florida State Prison (FSP) in Starke.
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Rodger Howell is 80% disabled. His exposure to Agent Orange while serving in Vietnam has now taken its toll. He suffers from both heart and kidney problems and was told by doctors last July that he had five weeks to live.[Full Story »]

In a one-two-three Town of Havana meeting Tuesday morning, council members gave approval for a re-plat for a house and vacant lot at 301 Live Oak Lane. “In the original plat back in the 1970s it called for two lots. Mr. (Dick) Gandy built his home ten feet onto the second lot.
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Quincy's leadership got welcomed good news last Tuesday, June 10th, as Interim City Manager Mike Wade and Interim Finance Director Jeff Williams told commissioners about a settlement that the Florida Municipal Power Agency (FMPA) had negotiated on behalf of Quincy and other FMPA members to recover additional costs of wholesale power that resulted from a failed upgrade project at the Crystal River (formerly Progress Energy; now Duke Energy) Unit 3 nuclear power plant.
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Midway’s council met in workshop mode on Thursday, June 5 to deal with the city’s proposed charter school. City manager Dot Inman-Johnson told the board that she is trying to get real numbers for the younger people they want to serve at the school. She said it’s been difficult; that she has found that Midway has 1,204 households, of which 39.9% are under the age of 18.
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Former Quincy City Manager Jack McLean announced last week in a press release the filing of a federal lawsuit against the City of Quincy, Quincy Retirement Savings Plan and Michael B. Wade for declaratory and injunctive relief.
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Gadsden County has been the site of a hugely successful Rural County Summit, directed at community disaster and emergency response, held at the Florida Public Safety Institute for the past two years.
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